Age: 28 Where you’re from: Faenza (RA) Where you’re based: Rome

Age: 29 Where you’re from: Palermo, Sicily Where you’re based: Catania, Sicily

Age: Damn, turned 32 already! Where you’re from: Pozzuolo Martesana, a little town outside Milan Where you’re based: Bologna, since 4 years ago!

Where you’re from: Milan

Age: 32 Where you’re from: Trento Where you’re based: Trento

Age: 25 Where you’re from: Monterotondo (province of Rome) Where you’re based: Milan

In honor of our GENERATIONS issue, we and our wonderful contributors have been polling our country’s reigning generation on the most important things they’ve learned during their long, long lives. Here, five of the best (and keep an eye on our Instagram @italysegreta for even more pieces of life advice from Italy’s elders!).

That Venice is one of the most romanticized and visited places in the world is hardly news. Following a forced two-year hiatus caused by the Acqua Granda and the Pandemic, the city has returned to its normal routine as a busy tourist destination and, consequently, with all the social and cultural challenges inherent to this […]

“The Francigena became a fundamental conduit between northern and southern Europe, tying together continent-wide military, religious, and mercantile pursuit and, in turn, embodying a sense of European cultural unity.”

“DON’T speak, answer the phone, play music, or even have your ringer on in the Silenzio Cabin. You will be scolded.”

“These Regionale lines are a means to travel to the lesser-known, off-piste settings that everyone dreams about in Italy but few have the gumption to seek out.”

“Il tamarro è sempre in voga / perché non è di moda mai.”   “The tamarro is always in vogue / because he’s never fashionable.”   (Articolo 31, Il funkytarro)

“DON’T make a dinner reservation for before 7:30 PM (or 8:30 PM if in Rome). It’s just embarrassing.”